I'm a former BBC foreign correspondent (Russia, Eastern Europe and China in the 70s and 80s) now specialising in working with the aftermath of exposure to trauma, but also with life's search for meaning.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is one of the most effective - and extensively-researched - ways of approaching trauma, and can work very quickly.
Sometimes, if the trauma is relatively straightforward (a car crash, for example), we can usually make serious progress in just a few sessions. More complex trauma, rooted in the past and perhaps way back in childhood, can take a bit longer.
However effective, though, I don't use EMDR just as a quick fix. Human beings are more complicated than that, so I also bring to my therapeutic work a great deal of experience of the world and of life, and many years of training in a wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches.
We use what works, within the context of a safe and boundaried therapeutic relationship.
I am also a qualified psychotherapy supervisor, working with individual therapists or with groups, and deliver training days for therapists (and journalists) in working with trauma, both in London and in Cirencester in the Cotswolds where I live.Qualifications & Training
EMDR-registered Practitioner, working towards Consultant status.
Diploma in Psychotherapy Supervision (CCPE 2009).
MA (2000) in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (CCPE and De Montfort University).
Diploma in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (CCPE, London).
Member BACP.Experience
I worked for 30 years in journalism and broadcasting, as BBC and Reuters correspondent in Moscow, East and West Berlin, Vienna, Beijing and London.
From 1995 to 2000, I retrained in London as a psychotherapist, and now have extensive experience in working with the widest range of clients, both short-term (e.g. five sessions through Employee Assistance Programmes) and longer-term (from months to years, depending on the client's need).Fees
£65 an hour in London (rising to £70 after Easter 2010), or £50 an hour (£55 an hour from Easter) in Cirencester.
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Individual Counselling, Adults, Men, Women, Long-term, Short-term, Single sessions, Time-limited, Face-to-face, email, telephone, phone, Supervision, Training/tutoring, Workshop, Concessionary rates, Anxiety, Attachment, Bereavement, Child Abuse, Depression, Divorce, Separation, Loss, Self-esteem, Narcissism, Panic, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Rape, Relationships, Self-confidence, Sexual Abuse, Spirituality, Suicide, Trauma, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Desensitisation, Dream work, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Jungian, Person-centred, Psychotherapy, Transactional Analysis, Transpersonal, Visualisation, Life Coaching. |
